If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned...

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Americans value honesty in advertising, and the so-called crisis pregnancy centers should not be exempt from living up to this basic principle.

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in...

Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.

Research shows that traditional advertising and public relations work pretty well for events, such as a sale. But brand loyalty and commitment occurs through experience, use of a product and talking with other people.

If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

To attract a lover, you need to craft the perfect Craigslist ad. Here’s mine: Free TV with purchase of potato chips and couch.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

We were finding our conviction about the advertising business.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the name of beauty, you may do what you like. It is...

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

You will also see us meld small business advertising with consumer advertising campaign.

Health makes good propaganda.

‘Never,’ enjoins a women’s magazine, ‘mention the size of his [penis] in public… and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right.’...

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

We created about 300 ambassadors for us, … It’s free advertising, and we’re getting some great feedback from them.

It’s obvious that advertising pays, otherwise people wouldn’t advertise — so now we’re getting on that bandwagon.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

Local advertising is bought more on a quarterly basis than an annual basis, … A lot of economists have been lulled into a false sense of growth due to strength of ’03 upfront [the advertising...

But if you take the halo effect of all the free advertising and media exposure, put a dollar value on that, I would suspect they probably came up with a calculation that said, at worst,...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by ‘better’ such things as more...

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an...

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance and female submission so that many young people believe this is...

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power...

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this ‘cool’ smile is...

One of the factors contributing to retail margin pressures in January was a shift in advertising to later in the year, in support of Target’s evolution to more a department store and gift destination.

Whatever is deeply, essentially female–the life in a woman’s expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin–is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease....

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement.

[I]m Internet [ist] Aufmerksamkeit eine echte Ware geworden, die sich bereits im Moment ihrer Entstehung vermarkten lässt.

Advertising has been effective. When we go to conferences, the port is well-known and we are sought out because they have seen our growth.

It has built a strong name for itself and it’s a very advertising-friendly platform.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don’t offend the...

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life

Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant’s father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” at any...

A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men’s appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes–all of which we do. The fact...

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her “Health”: if public discourse were really concerned with women’s health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

We wanted to connect with people as strongly as some of our great advertising campaigns of the past did — such as with Beattie with Maureen Lipman or Bob Hoskins in ‘It’s good to talk’...

The best advertising for this is spring. Snow melts, the trash is revealed and it is disgusting. And you can’t help but have the urge to get out of your car and pick up that...